Urap facts for kids

Urap is a yummy salad from Indonesia. It's made with steamed vegetables mixed with a special dressing of seasoned coconut. You can eat Urap as a main dish if you're a vegetarian, or it can be a tasty side dish with other foods. It's often found as an important part of a traditional Javanese meal called tumpeng, which is a cone-shaped pile of rice surrounded by different dishes.

What's in Urap?

Urap uses a mix of fresh vegetables. Some common ones include:

• Spinach
• Water spinach
• Young cassava leaves
• Papaya leaves
• Chinese long beans
• Bean sprouts
• Cabbage

These vegetables are steamed until they are just right, then mixed with the flavorful coconut dressing.

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  Urap (bottom right) is often served with nasi kuning, a yellow rice dish.